Packing



Jan. 31, 1933. E, STlEFEL 1,895,497

PACKING Filed OC'. 1l, 1929 25 'this end `is attained by Patented Jan. 31, 1933 UNITED .STATES PATENT ort-ICE ERNST STIEFEL, OF IBAUIA,- SWITZERLAND, ASSIGNOR TO SWISS LOCOHOTIVE AND `IVACHIIINIE WORKS, 0F WINTERTHUR, SWITZERLAND, A CORPORATION-OF SWITZEB-f LAND PACKING Application 4led October 11, 1929, `Serial No.

' My invention relates to the packing of shaftsfor rotary refrigerating machines, rotary compressors, .rotary vacuum pumps and like machines. 1

' In such machines having rotary pistons it is very diiiicult to pack fluid-tight the end of the 'shaft extending out of thel stator houst('lhis invention has for its Aobject to solve this problem in a reliable and very simplei manner.

According to the invention, a packing for shafts of machines of the kind described comprises. a stuing-box chamber containin -at least two conical yielding metallic stu ngy boxes which are ground on to the shaft and rotate therewith and are pressed by a ,spring against stationary endcovers, and 011 forced under pressure through the stuffing-box chamber is led into and thereby lubricates the bearing of the shaft of the machine.

It is desirable to adjust the pressure in the stuffing-box chamber to a desired amount and providing a check valve in a conduit connecting the stuing-box chamber with the journal box of the shaft.

According to\ another feature of the invention the outer stuffing-box is connected with 'the rotatin shaft by a diaphragm.

Preferab y, an annular chamber is arranged between the inner st'ulin box and the journal box, and the oil supplie to the stuif- `1ng-box chamber flows from' the latter to the annular chamber on box.

Oneembodiment -of the invention and a modication thereof are diagrammatically illustrated by way of example-in the accomits way to the journal panying drawing, .wherein FigureA 1 shows one form of packing 'ac- `cording to the invention in section, and

Figure 2 is a like view of amodification thereof. A

Like reference characters designate like parts in both views'.

According to Figure rota compressor or like machine has its end cl by'a cover plate 2 which carries a bearing 3. 0n the4 late2 is secured an intermediate cover p atel4 which carries a clo- 1, a housing 1 of a 398,880, and in Germany November 7, 1928.

.washers are ground on theplates 4 and 5 to make fluid-tight face joints.'` Each bushing i and its associated washer, which contact'one another on a conical face are connected together by 'a driving member and together form one element referred to hereinafter as' a stuffing-box.

Each packing device thus comprises two stuffing-boxes, whereof one is pressed against the intermediate plate 4 and the other against the closure plate 5 by a spring 12 common to them both. These two plates 4 and 5 are bolted gas-tightly together by bolts not shown and are stationary, whilst the two stuffing boxes rotate with theishaft 7, being driven by the coupling by means of dogs as shown at 13 and 14.

It is not very difficult to provide a ground liuid tight joint between the stuing boxes and the plates 4 and 5, so that no fluid shall escape, but it is diiiicult tog-rind the b ushings suiiiciently exactly on the shaft to revent gases and vapors from escaping a ong the latter. w

p An oil seal, known in itself, serves to perfect the described packing, the chamber 6 being filled vwith oil. The stuing-box chamber filled with oil is subjected to a pressure rather greater than that in the journal box l 15 so that no gaseous fluid can pass' from the journal box into the stuiiing-box chamber. .4 It is therefore not possible for gases to escape to the atmosphere along the shaft as theycannot pass into the stuffing-box chamber.

of pressure between the two chambers 6 and 15 is rovided in the pipe 17. Theistuiiingbox c amber 6 can be subjected to pressure in two ways:-First1y, a pipe 20' leading and iiows into the journal box 15 where itl serves to lubricate the bearing. Because of directly into the journal box, but indirectly by wa of the annular chamber 19, a store of oil is blrovided in front of the inner stuiling box 9, 14 which ensures the machine being well packed even when it is stationary.

A characteristic feature of the above described packing isthat the oil under pressure after flowing through the stuiling-box chamber is supplied to the bearing, of the rotor of theamachine, but only in such quantity as is absolutely necessary for the lubrication of that bearing. Consequently by this supply the machine receives no more oi and the apparatus, e. g. in rotary refrigerators, are not more soiled than in a machine, having a stuffing-box'without oil circulation, in contradistinction to known constructions in which the oilV under Eressure after flowing through the stuiiin'gducted, for example, `into the suction pipe of the machine,and thus effects an undesirable additional lubrication. Further, in contradistinction to known diaphragm packing devices, the diaphragm 16, when used, does not ,1 have to-transmit any frictional forces, as the bushing connected by the diaphragm with the shaft is driven by the shaft independently of the diaphragm. Apart from thedia phragm 16 the construction shown in Figure 2 is similar to that shown in Figure 1. Y

Various modifications may be made in the details of construction described above without departing from the invention as defined in the claims.A i

1. A shaft, a casing through an opening in a wall of which the shaft extends into the casing, and means to through sa1d opening into said casin comprising a seahng member snugly 'dabl mounted on the shaft within the casing an having sealing cooperation with the wall-of the casing surrounding the shaft opening therein, means tomaintain a liquid under higher pressure within said casing than the `pressure of any liquid tending to flow through said opening into the casing, said casing wall havin aliqud chamber disposed outwardly wlth respect to said sealing member and surrounding the shaft, a conoil passing from the stuffing-box chamber not ox chamber is conumounted on the shaft within the cas revent flow of iuid nection between said chamber and the liquid space within the casing, and a valve in said connection effective to maintain the liquid pres ure in said chamber lower than the liquid pressure in the casing. j

2. AA shaft, a casing through an opening in a wall of which the shaft extends into the casing, and means to prevent flow.V of iuid through said opening into said casing comprising a sealing member snugly slidably mounted on the shaft within the casing'and having sealing cooperation with the wall of the casing surrounding the shaft o ning therein, sprin means constantly tenciii to urge said sea ing member along said s aft into sealing cooperation with said casing wall, means to maintain a liquid under higher pressure within said casing than-'the pressure ofV any-liquid tending to flow through said p Opening into the casing, said casing wall having a liquid chamber disposed outwardly with respect to said sealing member andv surrounding the shaft, a connectionA between said chamber and the liquid Aspace within the casing,'and a valve in said connect-ion eective to maintain the liquid ressur'ein said chamber lower than the liqui pressure in the casing.

3. A shaft, a pressure device from which said shaft extends and from which fluid under pressure tends to escape along said shaft, a casing disposed in fluid tight relationship at one end to said device, said casing ha openings in the ends 4thereof through whic the shaft extends, and means to seal the shaft against -flow of Huid therealong from said device into and from the casing com rising a "pair of sealing members snugly Ys 'dabl an having sealing cooperation with the inner faces of the end walls of the casing, res ctively, spring means lbetween said se g members constantly tending to urge them apart. and into sealing cooperation with said casing end walls, means to maintain a liquid under higher pressure within said casin'g than the pressure of an liquid tending to flow along the shaft into t e casing, means providing a liquid chamber surroundin the shaft between the pressure device an within the casing, and a valve lin said connection effective l.tomaintain the liquid ressurel in said chamber'lower than the hquid pressure in the casing. s

4. A shaft, and sealing means'therefor as set forth in claim 3 in which a diaphragm connects the sealing member remote from th pressure device with the shaft.

In testimony whereof I ailixv m signature.

ERNST 'S IEFEL.

the adjacent sealing member, a connection between said chamber and the liquid space loo 

